"Could actually be good if you bothered to write it properly". Poundshop potshots at the media moral maze. Contains swears. Disliked by Howard Jacobson. Therefore: Enjoy.
Monday, 14 September 2009
I have a feeling there won't be too many clickthroughs
I suspect that may be intentional. After all, they "do not want innocent Muslims being victimised or abused". Just antagonised and scared. A muslim dating service advert (superficially) supports their claim.
Plus I read a theory somewhere that suggested a large portion of Islamophobic men may be so due to their repressed attraction to women in non-sexual Islamic dress and their inability to sexualise their fantasy encounters in their tiny little minds.
It all sounds stupidly Freudian to me (and rather misses the other major factors, not to mention putting the onus of 'fault' on the women for wearing clothes; typical chauvinist academics...), but if there's any truth in that, there'll probably be a lot more clickthroughs than you might expect.
Fear. Fear! Fear about wrinkles. You're getting old! And look, the bloody Poles are procreating! The selfish bastards, having children which are just a strain on the NHS and schools rather than paying for the vast pension pot of an ageing population who... er, read the Daily Mail and have wrinkles. But there's a picture of Kate & Gerry to lighten the mood. Some new bollocks theory about what someone might have thought a few months ago but isn't sure about now. Who did they sell her to? Darkies probably! Coming over to steal our babies! But not the Polish ones, obviously.
Something implying that darkies took the blonde child? Check. Some lies about immigration statistics? Check. A wilfully ignorant front-page rant that a child of five could dismantle? Check. A free DVD that no-one wants? Check. A picture of a pre-pubescent boy from the same newspaper that would vilify paedophiles? Check. A bit of poppy fascism? Check. JACKPOT!
...says no-one, ever. But that doesn't mean you can't say that in a headline, obviously
1 comments:
I suspect that may be intentional. After all, they "do not want innocent Muslims being victimised or abused". Just antagonised and scared. A muslim dating service advert (superficially) supports their claim.
Plus I read a theory somewhere that suggested a large portion of Islamophobic men may be so due to their repressed attraction to women in non-sexual Islamic dress and their inability to sexualise their fantasy encounters in their tiny little minds.
It all sounds stupidly Freudian to me (and rather misses the other major factors, not to mention putting the onus of 'fault' on the women for wearing clothes; typical chauvinist academics...), but if there's any truth in that, there'll probably be a lot more clickthroughs than you might expect.
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